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Is Fitbit Inc (FIT) A Good Stock To Buy?

We are still in an overall bull market and many stocks that smart money investors were piling into surged through October 17th. Among them, Facebook and Microsoft ranked among the top 3 picks and these stocks gained 45% and 39% respectively. Hedge funds’ top 3 stock picks returned 34.4% this year and beat the S&P […] …read more […]

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Did Hedge Funds Drop The Ball On Synaptics Incorporated (SYNA) ?

At Insider Monkey we track the activity of some of the best-performing hedge funds like Appaloosa Management, Baupost, and Tiger Global because we determined that some of the stocks that they are collectively bullish on can help us generate returns above the broader indices. Out of thousands of stocks that hedge funds invest in, small-caps […] …read more […]

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Why AT&T shares were higher after reaching agreement with activist shareholder

Shares of AT&T are higher after the company announced a 3-year plan to meet demands from activist shareholder Elliott management, which includes adding 2 new board members and selling up to $10 billion of non-core businesses next year. Yahoo Finance’s Jen Rodgers, Myles Udland, Andy Serwer, and Brian Cheung discuss. …read more […]

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U.S. regulator to bar China’s Huawei and ZTE from government subsidy program

The U.S. telecommunications regulator plans to vote in November to designate China’s Huawei Technologies and ZTE Corp as national security risks, barring their U.S. rural carrier customers from tapping an $8.5 billion government fund to purchase equipment or services.

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UPDATE 1-Alphabet third-quarter profit misses estimates

Google parent Alphabet Inc missed analysts’ estimates for quarterly profit on Monday as it reported its highest-ever quarterly expenses, sending shares down about 1.7% even though revenue growth topped expectations. Google provides limited product-level financial disclosures, leaving investors increasingly uncertain about how pressures including regulatory scrutiny, advertiser boycotts and global trade tensions are affecting operations. Google has tried to demonstrate that its cloud-computing business is roaring, disclosing last quarter about $2 billion in revenue and saying that plans continued to hire thousands for that unit to stoke growth. …read more […]

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Did Hedge Funds Drop The Ball On Eldorado Gold Corp (EGO) ?

Out of thousands of stocks that are currently traded on the market, it is difficult to identify those that will really generate strong returns. Hedge funds and institutional investors spend millions of dollars on analysts with MBAs and PhDs, who are industry experts and well connected to other industry and media insiders on top of that. Individual investors can piggyback […] …read more […]

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You Don’t Have to Settle for Low Interest Rates

This is an odd time in financial history. At least 11 countries have negative yields on their 10-year bonds, including Japan, Germany and France.
Investors have poured $17 trillion into negative-yielding bonds.
Think about what that means for a minute. Investors are so worried about rates falling even further that they’re willing to accept a guaranteed loss over 10 years (not to mention the decrease in buying power due to inflation).
Either that or they’re speculating on the Greater Fool Theory – that rates will go lower and someone will buy their negative-yielding bonds at a higher price than they are today.
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